keiji 🔸 quad legend acquired

my friends dragged me back onto socials to share our event so anyone going to ALA this winter should come check out or art party!

only coming back here to drop this and go back to my hole
quad legends IN PF

anyway tried to farm ex5. R1 SMN because the DNC immediately sprints to the R2 spot when the gate drops, nbd. DNC comes into my spot repeatedly for grand cross and claims it’s muscle memory. My brother in hydaelyn YOU PICKED R2

similarly now I understand why I like MNK and it’s because it has the same shit to worry about as MCH wrt kill time effecting openers and 1-min management and rushing CDs etc. It’s all making sense

realized why my go-to caster is SMN and it’s because I’m a BRD player. I know the exact timings of everything in a fight to the second because of BRD so I never even have to think about swapping primal orders for SMN because I *already know them* because of BRD’s timings

bonus: First Tetsu gpose vs most recent, and first Caramell gpose vs most recent (ft. Tetsu)

lodestone pic from the very first day of playing (April 20, 2022) vs mid-raid selfie with da oomf from two days ago (bonus end-of-prog-week mood from last night)

Like I love UCOB because when shit hits the fan it gets wild but it also never really gets boring even when you do it right
UWU is the same way but makes you really flex knowledge to recover
TEA is perfect. PA best phase in the game
DSR feels like it makes you WORK for any inch of prog

So I’m so sorry FRU but I think that in itself makes you my least favorite ultimate by default…. It’s fine but I just don’t feel anything doing it because all of the mechs in practice are literally way easier than they look and after m8s it’s not even fast either. In 6 hours I went from LR to p4…..

yaknow. I’m kinda realizing that I don’t feel anything about FRU. Like I’m not particularly excited to do any mech, I’m not enthralled by any phase, there isn’t any part of it where I go “wow I feel so cool for doing this right”… it’s just a “Going through the motions” fight

fight ain’t shit (said through gritted teeth because im tilted tonight)

day 1 of prog for the week vs day 3 of prog (in a row)

there are! numbers on the party list!
if we both swifted that’s one thing but on a hardcast there’s like 8 seconds to look and figure it out. and there’s a whole second guy. get that one.

cohealers who swiftcast raise the same guy I’m hardcasting when I’m 90% through the cast and there’s a whole other guy on the ground, wasting my Thin Air because I had to restart the raise cast: I am exploding you with my mind

Eureka is also canon for Tetsu. Caramell did Ivalice but not Crystal Tower. Nier, Myths of the Realm, and Void Ark are not canon for either and i'm unsure where i want to put Jeuno, leaning canon for Tetsu (implicitly post-simulacrum Caramell)

anything MSQ is canon for Caramell (up to Elpis), but only normal-mode. For Tetsu everything MSQ is canon except it's all EX+
Pandae is canon for both, Alexander only for Caramell, and CoB only for Tetsu
HOWEVER. DSR and TEA are also canon for Tetsu because i wanted to torment him with a HW timeloop

Tetsu spends most of his time around the Arcadion for now, and Caramell has been an entertaining addition to Tetsu's "act". Mostly though, Tetsu's trying not to end up too severely weakened by maintaining Caramell's simulacrum, and the Arcadion is as good a place as any to test his new limits

sometimes i watch back videos from prog and catch a cool animation from me and i'm just like wow. bard animations are kinda cool sometimes (ft my fru glam that's been changing every 4 days)

And even when it was current it was still like.. we were skipping scales when Thaleia dropped. Euphro’s a LITTLE better but why’s the enrage on Althyk/Nymeia NEARLY TEN MINUTES. Poor planning on the scaling, ilvl sync made them trivial, all around that series needs to be tweaked so bad

even the Void Ark raids have some hands and last a decently long enough time to see mechs 😭 like I ran Aglaia for my alt for leveling and the alt is just a SCH but I swear faerie handles literally all of the healing it’s so pathetic. It’s level NINETY

The fights already don’t even hurt like.. make the mechs actually do damage and give the bosses like 200% more HP I am so serious, it’s so sad especially after how good the DT ARs are 😔

imagine being a sprout and never seeing Rhalgr’s fist, Byregot’s clones, Azeyma’s triangle, AND Nald’Thal’s scales… we killed at balls…..

the ONLY fight that took longer than 3 minutes (because it took 3:45) was Azeyma and that’s only because a tank killed like 12 people with a tankbuster because they “zoned out” and chased the whole party

got aglaia in roulette today and oh my god stg you only do like two mechs in each fight because EW content is soooo slow AND that raid is so squishy. awful experience, each fight was under 3 minutes (I went on SMN and every fight ended before my second Phoenix)

whoever snatched my YouTube account and did so much spamming and sus shit in less than 12 hours it got PERMANENTLY REMOVED: go fuck yourself

what if you wanted to sit down and write but you can’t work without music and YouTube JUST shut your account down for suspicious activity so the playlist you JUST made like 24 hours ago is just completely gone-

And lastly, 4. Don’t form your whole identity around your online presence. Have things you enjoy that you don’t post about. Privacy is good! Not everything has to be done to share it online!
Related: if you have to Say Shit, sometimes typing the post but deleting it helps get it out of your system

2.5: If you’re exposing yourself to discourse all the time, you also need to know when enough is enough and when you either have to start blocking or simply log off and go outside
3. Have a timeline/app/other thing that you can do alone that never fails to make you happy or at least less stressed

The sooner you come to a couple realizations the better:
1. Everyone in your computer is a person. They have the same agency (and flaws) that you do
2. If you constantly expose yourself to discourse, you have to admit you might enjoy it in some way (watching drama, arguing, poking the bear, etc)

And honestly it’s been helping a lot! I’m getting more planning and sketching done for art and I’m just putting words on the page without a plan now, which feels like a way better middle ground than waiting to be possessed by demons or having to have every detail figured out before I even start